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Access Zygon’s Oakeshott Symposium for free
The Zygon Symposium on Oakeshott and Science is now free to access online.
Sadly, no in-page shortcuts. You must go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122210525/issue?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 and then scroll down the page to the section called “REFLECTING ON MICHAEL OAKESHOTT”.
Recent posts by Leslie Marsh
Over at his blog Man Without Qualities, Leslie Marsh has recently posted a couple of Oakeshott curiosities. One is a link to Time magazine’s 1950 story about Oakeshott’s appointment to the LSE, which it seems is now online along with the magazine’s entire archive.
Philosospher of Conversation
Leslie’s other recent Oakeshott post was Philosopher of Conversation, about [...]
Who did Oakeshott Influence?
According to the historian of medieval Europe, R.W. Southern:
The success of a writer must be judged not only by the continuing study of his works, but — even more emphatically — by later scholars improving or enlarging his works, and going on to follow a similar method with similar material.”
R.W. Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the [...]
Zygon Symposium on Oakeshott (Pay to View)
Leslie Marsh has edited a symposium on Oakeshott in the March 2009 issue of Zygon: the Journal of Religion and Science.
The issue is available online at Wiley InterScience, but unless you have access via an institutional subscription, you will have to pay to download the articles.
Contributors include:
Elizabeth Corey (Religion and the Mode of Practice)
Timothy Fuller
Byron [...]
Vale George Feaver and Bernard Crick
Leslie Marsh has drawn our attention to the death of George Feaver, who contributed to several of the MO Association’s Conferences, and of Bernard Crick, who once dubbed Oakeshott “the lonely nihilist” of the LSE, and who much later described himself in a conference as a “sort of left-wing Oakeshottian”.
Oakeshott as seen late in life
Leslie Marsh has posted on his blog a rare late photograph of Oakeshott, which he dates to Durham circa 1985.
Gene Callahan on Rationalism in Politics
Gene Callaghan has an article in the Freeman (January, 2009 edition) that discusses Oakeshott’s critique of Rationalism in Politics and finds real-world support for it in the case of the 1950s-60s urban planning that gave many Western nations our crime-ridden high-rise ghettos.